Samsun Logix Corporation v Oceantrade Corporation – QBD (Com Ct) (Gross J) – 18 October 2007

Lien on sub-freights – Freezing injunction against time-charterers – Injunction permitting freight on voyage charter of different vessel to be paid to time-charterers’ solicitors – Voyage charterer paying freight to time-charterers’ solicitors – Owners exercising lien on sub-freights – Whether lien validly exercised – Whether determination by arbitrator that lien validly exercised binding on non-party to arbitration – Priorities of funds in hands of time-charterers’ solicitors

(2007) 729 LMLN 3